The NPA-Rizal vehemently denies targeting election personnel and PCOS machine in their tactical offensive last May 12. The statement made by 2nd ID-PA spokesperson 2nd Lieutenant Frank Celeste Sayson as reported by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Daily Tribune and other news agencies is a clear lie. If the said news agencies bothered to check the veracity of the incident, they could have asked the people living in the area where the NPA tactical offensive happened. If they did their homework to present the truth, they will easily know that the joint platoon of government troops under 22nd Reconnaissance Company, 2nd ID-PA and "Butcher" 16th IB-PA were not escorting PCOS Machine carried by members of the BEIs and Smartmatic personnel when they were attacked by NPA Snipers.

With the reactionary elections coming to a close, it now appears that the Philippine neocolonial state will be headed next by Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.

Once Aquino assumes power on June 30, the Filipino people are intent on immediately confronting his presidency with the most pressing issues arising from the basic political and socio-economic problems they have been suffering under the prevailing rotten semi-colonial and semifeudal system.

The May 7 military action of the NPA's Wilfredo Zapanta Command-Front 18 Operations Command (Wizac-NPA) is a punishment against the abusive 28th IB-AFP troops and a response to the complaints of the masses. The 28th IB-AFP casualties were not delivering Comelec PCOS machines as 10th ID-AFP spokesman Capt. Emmanuel Garcia claims. The NPA, as a matter of policy and as track record shows, fully respects the people's will in the guerilla base areas especially during this most chaotic election period.

The Valentin Palamine Regional Operations Command demands that the 39th IB-AFP immediately surface Serafin Tababa Embati, 47 years old, who was abducted in Magsaysay, Davao del Sur on the morning of May 7, 2010 by operatives of the 39th IB-AFP. We also demand that Serafin Embati be accorded medical attention after the beating he got from the three military operatives who blocked the motorcycle he was riding and, in full view of the passers by, attacked him resulting to a possible major head injury.